“It’s easy to be friends when things are going well, but friendship is only engaged when things are going wrong.” #JoshHomme of @qotsa via youtube.com/watch?v=LjCZnfLB…

“I think in any career, we can get locked into boxes — boxes we put ourselves in, sometimes. You can find a lot of life outside of the four square walls you’ve built for yourself. And sometimes that life is what’s truest to you.” #ReganHutsell via nytimes.com/2026/10/13/arts/…

“What we’re here trying to do is help people, and when we do that, we help ourselves, and everybody rises. That’s the theory anyway.” Scott Layman, longtime resident of #DignityVillage, a self-funded and self-governed legal encampment for homeless people. nytimes.com/2026/09/26/headw…

“Through architecture, Ma’s trying to reconnect people and societies to things that have been lost in our relentless search for progress,” curator Aric Chen said. “We thought we could rationalize everything. Look where it’s gotten us.” nytimes.com/2026/09/23/arts/…

“When I believe I’m in the right direction and it’s the right thing to do, I’m a guy who is not scared to talk. I have no problem with that. And I will not try to be someone else because it’s too difficult. I have no time to be someone else.” @KMbappe via nytimes.com/athletic/7597491…

This entire Sheeran/Macklemore debacle is a stark reminder that opting out of taking political stands is, in and of itself, a political stand: a politics of self-interest. @rgay via nytimes.com/2026/09/21/opini…

Tech founders changed the world, all right. But the movies about them reveal, more often than not, that we’re mad as hell about the world they built. @alissamarie via nytimes.com/2026/09/18/movie…

“Contrarians are the ones that nobody likes because they’re thinking outside the box and they’re doing things that nobody’s ever done before. Those are people who said, “I don’t care. I know it seems impossible, but I’m going to do it.” #GeorgeLucas via youtube.com/watch?v=9C7-H0uq…

“I view life through a creative lens, and if I wasn’t able to do that, then it would be miserable for everybody else around me.” @vincestaples via https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=tCniNdj3…

“I refuse to sabotage my enjoyment by actually competing on any form of a regular basis,” American former professional tennis player @AndreAgassi explained. “I will not access that part of my head anymore. It’s not a happy place to be.” nytimes.com/2026/09/07/magaz…

“We live in a world of people saying, ‘I need to achieve, achieve, achieve,’” @YoYo_Ma said. “But I’ve never felt like achieving something does anything more than give you a blip of pleasure.”

“Someone will say this who you are. And if you follow that too far, you will walk away from who you are.” @samsmith via youtube.com/watch?v=70dHiIRx…

“We’re blessed. It’s the best job in the world. I get paid to work with my friends. That’s how I look at it.” — Firefighter Pete Gonzalez via youtube.com/watch?v=LKzsp0BK…

“We’ve officially reached the point where customer support is just two LLMs locked in a recursive loop of ‘I understand your concern,’ while the actual humans on both ends just watch the credits roll.” @Reddit user TechWin01 via reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1…

“You always think, especially with the awards, that it’ll fulfill some gaping hole that has been there your entire life. And it does nothing. Whatever hole you’re trying to fill is still very much at the center of your gut.” @MatthewRhys via nytimes.com/2026/08/15/magaz…

“If A.I. is used to create sanitized, idealized people who don’t actually exist, we risk narrowing our definition of beauty instead of broadening it.” @saraziff of @ModelAllianceNY via nytimes.com/2026/08/13/arts/…

“This is exactly the type of garbage that has A.I. enthusiasm polling in the single digits. Keep it out of our art, media and culture. No one wants fake masquerading as real.” — NYTimes reader ‘That Dude’ via nytimes.com/2026/08/13/arts/…

“It’s really easy to not have to worry about anyone else in your life. But it can only last so long and it only takes you so far and it’s not sustainable.” @rolemodel via youtube.com/watch?v=AGbIWEXt…

The problem with writing with A.I. is that it’s mentally enfeebling — an escalator toward a result when you really need to make a daily habit of taking the stairs. #BretStephens via nytimes.com/2026/08/04/opini…

“I often get asked what separates the companies where AI works from ones where it stalls. My answer is never technical. It's how strong the culture is, whether people can speak the truth without consequences, take risks, and keep learning.” @Julie_I_b via nytimes.com/2026/08/03/opini…